Bicycle riding-habit



(No Model.)

H. MOSTKOWIT'Z. BIGYGLE RIDING HABIT.

Mas Hw' Patented Oct. 6

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN MOSTKOIVITZ, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BlcYoLE RIDING-HABIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,027', datedrctober 6, 1896.

Application nea January 30,1896. sesamo/7,358. (nspe'cimens.)

My im provements relate particularly to the arrangement of a bicycle habit or garb consisting of a skirt and trousers to be depended from the waist. At the top and back there are novel arrangements to facilitate opening and removal, the place of opening being concealed and secure and so disposed that the drapery will be graceful when the wearer is either riding or in a dismounted position. In obtaining this result I provide a seat-flap which divides from the garb on two substantially parallel and vertical lines, along which it is attached by clasps or other convenient means of fastening.

My invention is illustrated in` connection with a combination garb consisting of trousers or bloomers and skirt, the skirt being divided at the back, and its back edges secured to the inner seams of the bloomers, which it envelops. The skirt and bloomers have a common waistband.

One feature of myimprovement consists in a seat-iap forming a rpart of both the skirt and bloomers combined with the plaits or folds of the skirt, the plaits folding outside and concealing and protecting the seat-flap.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure lis a sectional View of the garb, taken on the line x as of Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is a top view with the plaits laid back. Fig. 3 is a perspective' View from behind with the plaits laid back. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line x4 .r4 of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a perspective view taken directly behind, in which the plaits are folded in place; and Fig. Gis a perspective view from behind of the bloomers, which are sewed inside the skirt.

The garb, as shown, consists in a pair of bloomers B, which is enveloped by a skirt S, which is divided at the back, where it is made full, and the edges are turned in and attached to the inner seams of the bloomers. The fullness at the bottom is obtained by forming a skirt in a circle, and plaiting at the top is made only at two points between the back and sides. The ends of the waistband w terminate at the top of these plaits, and when the ends are hooked together behind with the hooks 71, and eyes e the plaits cover and conceal the seat. The seat is separable from the garb along two substantiallyparallel vertical lines,and thus formed into a seat-flapf. These lines of separation coincide in both the skirt and bloomers, and the two flaps thus formed are united into a single flap, which both parts of the garb have in common. Suitable fastenings, as, for example, the clasps c and c', are provided for holding the iiap in place.

VThese join the edges of the iiap to strips or tongues t, which project inwardly, the clasps being between the inner vertical edges of the flap and these tongues. Thetwo of the clasps, however, which are at the corner are on the opposite or outer side of the iiap, and serve to attach the corners to the inner side of the waistband. The clasps are thus placed where they will be, the least liable to accidental disconnection, and so that they will permit the side plaits to fold smoothly over and outside the seat. Y

It is only when the wearer is 0E the bicycle that the plaits lie down against the seat-iiap, for when the wearer is riding the seat-iiap comes directly against the seat of the bicycle and the plaits fall around and conceal it, thus conducing to a graceful appearance of the rider.

Many modifications are possible without departing from the several novel features of my invention. For example, the cooperation of the side plaits, folding behind the seatflap in the manner described, may also be employed in a garbY without bloomers, and which has onlythe skirt, or it may be em-v ployed in one which consists of the bloomers only. It is also possible to simplify the invention by omitting the side plaits while retaining the feature 0f a seat-flap common to both the bloomers and the skirt parts of the garb. Y

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,is

1. A bicycle-habit, consisting of a skirt having an opening in the upperportion of its back and provided with a iiap covering the said IOO opening, the skirt having side plaits adapted to fold over the iiap and fastening on the outside thereof, whereby the flap is concealed, substantially as described.

2. A bicycle-habit, consisting of a skirt having an opening in the upper portion of its back and provided with a ap covering the said opening, the skirt being divided in the rear below the flap, and having side plaits depending from the waistband and folding over the iiap and fastening on the outside thereof, whereby the flap and division in the skirt are concealed, substantially as described.

3. A bicycle-habit consisting of a skirt and trousers connected at the waist and having an opening at their back, the habit being provided with a flap adapted to cover the said opening and forming a part of the skirt and of the seat of the trousers, the skirt having side pla-its adapted to fold over the fiap and fastening on the outside thereof, substantially as described.

4. A bicycle-habitconsisting of a skirt and trousers connected at the waist and having an opening at their back, the habit being provided with a flap adapted t0 cover the said opening and forming a part of the skirt and of the seat of the trousers, the skirt being divided in the rear from its lower edge to the crotch of the trousers and the edges thus formed being secured to the inside seams of the legs of the trousers, 'the skirt having side plaits at the Waist folding over the flap and fastening on the outside thereof, substantially as described.

5. A bicycle-habit, consisting of askirt and trousers, united at the waistband, and having an opening at their back and provided with a flap forming a part of the skirt and of the seat of the trousers, adapted to be secured beneath the waistband and to cover the said opening, the skirt being divided in the rear from its lower edge to the crotch of the trousers, and the edges thus formed secured to the inside seains of the legs of the trousers, theskirt having also side plaits, the inner face of the trousers having inwardly-projecting tongues to be secured beneath the iiap, the said side plaits folding over the iiap and fastening on the outside thereof, the top of the side plaits forming a continuation of the waistband over the flap, substantially as described.

Signed by me, in New York city, this 28th day of January, 1896.

HERMAN MOSTKOXVITZ.

lVituesses:

SAMUEL XV. BALGH, HENRY W. WEBER. 

